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To: blankmind who wrote (46)	12/20/1999 8:05:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 85

J.P. Morgan (24, Dec. 6) Initiating coverage with Buy rating and a $50 target price. Has a first-mover and leading advantage in the European online travel market. Now that it bought all the shares while everyone and their brothers were selling. SG Cowen initiated a buy too. Hasn't helped. Gary Korn P.S. I just noticed that this news is dated December 6.

To: blankmind who wrote (46)	12/28/1999 12:30:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85

12/27/99 Reuters Eng. News Serv. 04:25:00 Reuters English News Service C) Reuters Limited 1999. Monday, December 27, 1999 UK: Ebookers.com buys Swedish Internet travel company. LONDON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - British online travel company ebookers.com said on Monday it had agreed to buy STT Airways AB, a Swedish Internet travel firm with total sales of $26 million in 1999. STT is a holding company whose subsidiary Bijettakuten AB (www.bijettakuten.se) is one of Swden's leading online discounted fares agencies, and the acquisition also includes a business-to-business wholesale tradaitional travel company and a travel company selling to corporate businesses. The purchase price was not disclosed, but ebookers.com said in a statement that it had now spent $6 million on acquisitions since its IPO on the Nasdaq and Neuer Market in November 1999 - two in Germany and one each in Finland and Sweden. The Swedish deal "further consolidates e.bookers.com's strategic position and infrastructure as Europe's leading online travel specialist," the company said. STT had Internet sales of some $3.5 billion in 1999, and such sales are growing rapidly, with annualised sales for the last two months at approximately $5 million. Sweden has the third highest Internet penetration of any country in the world, at some 30 percent, and ebookers.com said the buy also gives it access to another $22.5 million of sales capable of being converted into Internet sales. ((Quentin Bryar, London Newsroom +44 207 542 7717, fax +44 207 583 3769, uk.equities.news@reuters.com)). ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): Ebookers.Com Plc; Ebookers.Com Plc (EBKR U.EBK)

To: blankmind who wrote (46)	12/28/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 85

12/28/99 Dow Jones Int'l News Serv. 04:02:00 Dow Jones International News Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Tuesday, December 28, 1999 Business News From The UK Press Tuesday Richard Branson is in talks that could lead to Virgin making an eleventh-hour bid to buy the Millennium Dome, the Times reported. Ebookers (NMS), the internet travel agent, may float on the London Stock Exchange next year, giving U.K. private investors a chance to get a slice of a company now quoted in the U.S. on Nasdaq, the Times reported. Vodafone Airtouch (U.VOD VOD), the acquisitive mobile phone operator, appears to have won the upper hand in its takeover battle for Airtel, Spain's second- biggest cellular phone company, the Times reported.

To: blankmind who wrote (46)	1/3/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85

1/3/00 Reuters Eng. News Serv. 11:53:00 Reuters English News Service C) Reuters Limited 2000. Monday, January 3, 2000 UK: Ebookers.com buys Norwegian travel agent. LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - British online travel company ebookers.com on Monday said it had agreed to buy Geotours AS, a Norwegian travel agency, for one million dollars in cash and shares. Based in Oslo, Geotours sells discounted fares and currently generates about 10 percent of its sales online. Geotours' revenues totalled $7.5 million in 1999. ebookers, which listed on Nasdaq and Germany's Neuer Markt in November, recently bought STT Airways in Sweden and Lloyd Tours in Finland. The Norwegian deal gives ebookers a significant presence in three European countries with some of the highest levels of Internet penetration in the world. ebookers, which bills itself as Europe's leading online travel agent, now has online sales in the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Norway, with additional operations in Switzerland and Ireland. It also plans to expand into Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Denmark. ((London Newsroom +44 171 542 7974, fax + 44 171 583 3769, uk.equities.news@reuters.com)). ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): Ebookers.Com Plc; Ebookers.Com Plc (EBKR U.EBK) KEY WORDS: DATA PROCESSING AND REPRODUCTION; TOURISM & LEISURE; NORWAY; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES; TRAVEL AGENTS; TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION NEWS SUBJECT: Travel (TVL) INDUSTRY: Office Equipment; Consumer Products & Services; Consumer &